Harambee Stars defender Zak Vyner enjoyed an impressive season in the English Football League (EFL) Championship both as an individual and with his Bristol City side.Follow our WhatsApp channel for more newsThe 28-year-old is one of only six players in the entire Championship season to play every minute of the current campaign and helped his club to qualify for the Promotion Playoffs, which they sadly lost to Sheffield United.STARS ABROAD: Kenyan defender’s hopes of featuring in English Premier League shutteredOf the six, three are from Bristol City, with captain Jason Knight and goalkeeper Max O’Leary also featuring in every game. Knight and O’Leary also achieved the same feat last season.The three Bristol players, including Vyner, added 180 minutes to their 4,140 minutes achieved during the regular season after playing full minutes of their two-legged playoff defeat to Sheffield United.##NAJAVA_MECA_8925865##For Vyner who has been with Bristol since the age of eight, making him the longest serving player at the club, the achievement did not come easy as he went out on loan to Accrington at 19 and then to Plymouth, Rotherham amd Aberdeen and at some point was almost sold but that did not deter him.”There were some conversations about moving on,” says Vyner. “I never begrudged it, I just used it as fuel. I came back to pre-season, I guess, very free because I didn’t know what would happen.Shabana FC defend fans after chaos in match against Gor MahiaI just focused on getting fit, and I’ve not looked back. I have had some rocky moments, but I’m really grateful for all of it. It’s been a crazy journey to this point, but it has been amazing,” said Vyner as quoted by The Guardian.Vyner, who turned 28 on Tuesday, 13 May, also opened up on his friendship with O’Leary, after sharing a long-standing bond since their school days in Bath.##NAJAVA_MECA_8925979##“It is great to have someone alongside you who knows the pressures of being an academy player in the first team. It means the world to be running with that torch for the academy,” he added.Bristol finished the league in sixth position to secure a playoff position for the first time in 17 years but just as it happened in 2008 against Hull City, they once again suffered eliminated on a 6-0 aggregate, 3-0 on both legs to end the Kenyan defender’s hopes of playing in the English Premier League (EFL) at least next season with his boyhood club.
